Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christianity - History

In 1946 the first of the Dead Sea Scroll discoveries was made near the site of Qumran, at the northern end of the Dead Sea. Despite the much publicized delays in the publication and editing of the Scrolls, practically all of them had been made public by the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the first discovery. That occasion was marked by a spate of major publications that attempted to sum up the state of scholarship at the end of the twentieth century, including The Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (OUP 2000). These publications produced an authoritative synthesis to which the majority...

The annual expenditure accounts recorded in this Register provide a complete picture of a Cluniac monastery during its last 60 years. Part 2 publishes the accounts for the years 1518-1540 and also contains biographical and other appendices and full indexes. Part 1 (019-7261604), which covers the period 1482-1517, and Part 2 together provide an invaluable resource for historians of Norfolk and of monastic life in the run up to the Reformation.

Since the early 20th century the scholarly study of Anglo-Saxon texts has been augmented by systematic excavation and analysis of physical evidence - settlements, cemeteries, artefacts, environmental data, and standing buildings. This evidence has confirmed some readings of the Anglo-Saxon literary and documentary sources and challenged others. More recently, large-scale excavations both in towns and in the countryside, the application of computer methods to large bodies of data, new techniques for site identification such as remote sensing, and new dating methods have put archaeology at the...

Put the New Testament alongside the first century manuscripts of Josephus, add an understanding of human psychology plus some inspired insights and you have 'The Jesus Discovery - Another Look At Christ's Missing Years.' Dr Bradford's new book traces the human identity of Jesus through the life of his 'earthly father' Joseph. Was Jesus an itinerant carpenter? Why did he gravitate to the temple when lost in Jerusalem aged 12? Who looked after him? Could an itinerant have cleared the temple market without being arrested by the temple guard? Why was Jesus not arrested in the temple courts but...

Cyflwynir yn y gyfrol hon holl syniadaeth athrawiaethol yr Apostol Paul a'i gefndir meddyliol mewn un bennod ar ddeg, ynghyd a swmp y farn ysgolheigaidd ddiweddaraf ar y pwnc. Trafodir perthynas yr Apostol a Iesu; cefndir syniadol Paul; natur ei droeedigaeth a'i alwad apostolaidd, a'i ddealltwriaeth o natur y ddeddf Iddewig; ei syniadaeth am iachawdwriaeth a Pherson Crist; ei ddealltwriaeth o natur y bod dynol a gwaith yr Ysbryd ynddo ac arno; dysgeidiaeth foesegol yr Apostol; ei syniadaeth am yr eglwys; ei farn am eschatoleg a'r 'Pethau Diwethaf'; a thrafodaeth ar gyfraniad y llythyrau yr...